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GhostTouch: how to remotely control touchscreens with EMI

Security Affairs

The researchers demonstrated how to inject two types of basic touch events, taps and swipes, into targeted locations of the touchscreen. The events allowed the researchers to control the devices (i.e. “In places like a cafe, library, meeting room, or conference lobbies, people might place their smartphone face-down on the table2.

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Vulnerability Recap 4/1/24: Cisco, Fortinet & Windows Server Updates

eSecurity Planet

or above March 25, 2024 Hackers Pollute Python Package Index Open-Source Libraries Type of vulnerability (or attack): Malicious library code. Checkmarx estimates over 170,000 developers use affected libraries and might possess corrupted code. The fix: Update affected versions ASAP: FortiClient EMS 7.2: Upgrade versions 7.2.0

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Lemon Group gang pre-infected 9 million Android devices for fraudulent activities

Security Affairs

The experts discovered a system library called libandroid_runtime.so that was tampered to inject a snippet code into a function called println_native. com ), as well as the main plugin called “Sloth.” “The implant is a tampered zygote dependency library that will load a downloader into a zygote process.

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Rhysida ransomware gang is auctioning data stolen from the British Library

Security Affairs

The Rhysida ransomware group claimed responsibility for the recent cyberattack on the British Library that has caused a major IT outage. The Rhysida ransomware gang added the British Library to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. It is one of the largest libraries in the world. ” reads the announcement.

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Will cryptocurrency mining soon saturate AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud?

The Last Watchdog

Then a JavaScript library called Coinhive came along that enabled people to embed mining code on their websites. We live in an era of breaches and every breach usually results in data leaks, including a lot of logons and passwords. Bilogorskiy: Correct, because people share passwords. This is called credential stuffing.

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Top 5 Application Security Tools & Software for 2023

eSecurity Planet

It involves verifying credentials such as usernames and passwords, before granting access to applications. Logging: Logs are records of events and activities within an application or resource that helps with monitoring and audits to identify common and unusual patterns of user behavior. The tougher to steal, the better.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached

IT Governance

million) Phil i ppines COVID-19 track and trace app leaks citizens’ data (unknown) Contractor mistakenly removed data from Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital (442) Cloud Clusters Inc.